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LARS (intro): 

Hello and welcome, I am Lars the founder and drummer of Tequila misery and the Band of Musicians club at CCA, that is California College of the Arts and you are listening to the Tequila Misery podcast. This is the direct accompaniment to the “Who is Tequila Misery” comic and zine. If you have not read the comic and have found this podcast on your own, I very, very much recommend that you read it because it might explain some things before you listen to this podcast. I have separately interviewed the 2 original members of the band, Nass and Kaeli, they are both guitarists and singers of the band, and edited their quotes and lovely conversations together into this short podcast, it is about 30 minutes. So I hope you enjoy, thank you so much for listening. 

 

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KAELI: Hello bro. Hello bro.

 

L: Laughs Hello hello.

 

K: Thank you for having me in the studio today, happy to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me. Laughs

 

L: Yes of course. So um, I am Lars, I am the drummer of Tequila Misery and i am here with Kaeli, the guitarist, the original guitarist of Tequila Misery.

 

K: The rumors are true.

 

Both laugh.

 

L: And we are talking as a start of the comic that I'm making for Tequila Misery and this is gonna be linked at the end of it, so people can listen to the interview and a little bit of our music as well.

 

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L: Hello, I am now here, with Nass the guitarist and vocalist of Tequila Misery. The other original member besides Kaeli, and I’m gonna be talking about some of the same things with them and maybe some other things, so say hello.

 

NASS: Hello!

 

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L: So we're basically gonna go through the timeline of Tequila Misery in the comic and how we started. Of course when we started we had Ronnie in the band and it was me, Kaeli, Nass, and Ronnie. Ronnie was our original Sax player, and Kaeli, Kaeli was the one who accumulated Ronnie. And Kaeli has accumulated all of our sax players.

 

K: HA!

 

L: And they all happen to be illustration majors.

 

K: Crazy overlap.

 

L: Apparently illustration majors like to play saxophone.

 

K: It’s true. Yeah the original lineup was super duper funky, all a bunch of people who just wanted to play music but none of the instruments or genres we were passionate about went together like at all! So it led to like a lot of experimental interesting mashups where it's like how can we incorporate saxophone into Riot Grrrl, like how can we bring like acoustic guitar into whatever else? How can we hear the acoustic guitar in the first place? It was just like a lot of energy and passion and not a lot of like, y’know, direction. We kinda had to make our own space and make up our own like interactions of preexisting genres.

 

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N: You know it’s been pretty good, and I think that somehow my guitar playing has stayed stagnant at, like, just fine, which is interesting because I thought it would get better with how much I play guitar, but um…

 

L: I think you’ve gotten better.

 

N: Well.

 

L: I think you’ve definitely gotten better, I’ve heard a difference, If i’ve gotten better at playing drums i think you've gotten better at playing guitar.

 

N: Of course you got better at playing drums, you're like a drum genius, but like, I don't think my guitar playing has gotten any better than when I started playing in 2019.

 

L: I think it’s gotten better.

 

N: Well, thank you.

 

L: Yeah, when I found you you played acoustic Mitski at Spring Fair.

 

N: Yeah that's true!

 

L: And now you’re playing No Doubt and Dazey and the Scouts epic guitar solo so I think, um, I think you’re doing better. Yeah, like, it’s not, like, playing guitar is not all there is to being a guitarist either; it's like having the stage presence and being able to improvise and playing with the band and all that as well.

 

N: That's true, I do get to tell my silly little jokes on stage sometimes.

 

L: And did you know how to change a guitar string before you were in the band?

 

N: No.

 

L: And now you do! And now you do so you’re learning the ins and outs of the guitar as well.

 

N: Yeah ‘cause I kept snappin’ them.

 

L: laughs Yeah. And Kaeli has had many a bloody finger um performing with us there's a lot of blood stains on their guitar.

 

N: It happens.

 

L: It happens! Shit happens.

 

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L: And we have equipment now but we had like no equipment then…

 

K: HA HA!

 

L: So like, we had to finesse a lot of stuff at the time too, especially for the acoustic guitar, like trying to figure out how to make it work at the time, cause we have the experience now but back then we were like, “how the hell are we supposed to make this work, should we mic the saxophone?” and then we heard Ronnie play for the first time and then we were like, we don’t need to mic the saxophone. Laughs. In the same way you don’t need to mic the drumset if you’re playing in a small venue as well. Um, and that first show, coming up with the name was hilarious. It was super last minute. Laughs. Careless Tequila Misery High was the name of the group chat for a while.

 

K: I don’t think we had a name for the band until like a week before the performance.

 

L: Yeah, but we also didn’t meet until like 2 weeks before the performance too.

 

K: Yeah everything is like, it never comes from a space of like, oh we have the resources, oh we have the time. It just comes from the desire to play and like the knowing that there are other people semi-nearby that also have the desire to play and jam out and it was really special. I love to sing but I'm not the world's best singer, but Tequila Misery gave me a place in which I could like, sing and have fun and it didn't need to be perfect and it really fulfilled a part of my creativity that is not my profession. It’s like a space to be creative but there's no pressure for it to be perfect or like, final. It's constantly evolving which is really cool too, and we see that with the members for sure.

 

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L: Do you remember when the band was called Carless Tequila Misery High?

 

N: Yes! I do, and that was always so hard for me because I would always mess up the order, and I would go, “We’re… Tequila- were… Mis-”

 

L: We’re Tequila Careless High Misery! Laughs.

 

N: Yeah and now we’re just Tequila Misery which is…

 

L: Yes, a lot easier to remember…

 

N: Yeah. Way shorter, way easier for me.

 

L: I have, um here, a timeline of all the shows we’ve done. We, by the time of December when we have the last show of the year, we will have played 13 shows.

 

N: What?! It doesn’t feel like 13.

 

L: How many did it feel like we played?

 

N: Like 4.

 

L: Laughs. I mean it's been 4 BoM Rock-a-Thons, so just alone we’ve done 4 fundraisers.

 

N: Yeah, maybe I only count time in BoM Rock-a-Thons.

 

L: Cause we’ve done, now, its 4 B.R.A.T.s, 2 Drawing Discos, First Year Fair, we did Homecoming, we did our solo show with Lesbi-ish, um, we did Pride SF, we did the House Show, um and then we’re gonna do our senior show. Yeah, there’s probably something I’m missing but yeah. We don't have a polaroid for every single one so I just have some of the regular photos from the shows that we did. 

 

N: Oh my god our color coordinated one. That was so good.

 

L: But we started taking polaroids at our third show which was Drawing Disco, and that was with, um Ronnie. You can scroll through and look. 

 

N: Yeah yeah yeah!

 

L: Yeah our first polaroid was you, me, and Ronnie. Kaeli wasn’t even at that show.

 

N: Wow.

 

L: But, um B.R.A.T. and the First Year Fair was before that and the First Year Fair was like all of us too.

 

N: Drawing Disco was silly because it was like...

 

L: It was 2 hours! That was our longest show ever.

 

N: Yeah 2 hours of like, “What do you wanna play next…?” 

 

L: We did the set twice! 

 

Both Laugh.

 

L: It was crazy, we did some improv shit.

 

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K: That would be the longest show to date.

 

L: Probably, yeah!

 

K: Yeah.

 

L: Drawing Disco was crazy.

 

K: That’s a lot of time to fill up of just saxophone, drums, and guitar.

 

L: Ronnie was a very good improv person.

 

K: Yeah Ronnie’s skilled as fuck!

 

L: We did Chameleon back then. Straight up jazz!

 

K: Yeah! And that was awesome too! Cause like when the fuck am I gonna play jazz cause thats not something I’m going to seek out myself, but like Ronnie brought an excitement, a coolness, and made it like, attractive- like something that you wanna do. It’s cool. So shoutout Ronnie and Chameleon.

 

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L: Yeah, it was like basically people witnessing our band practice.

 

N: Two hours going around like, well do you wanna like… play this one? Or we can play this one again, or we can like- or just like talking to the freshmen in the crowd. I mean I didn’t even know they were drawing us. I knew, kinda like subconsciously that they were drawing us but it was only toward the end when they were showing us pictures, like, “You… were… looking… at… me?”.

 

L: I still, I’ve never seen the drawings  they did. I wish I saw.

 

N: I saw a couple.

 

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L: And then we were asked to do uh, Homecoming at CCA, and that was you, me, and Nass for that show, and that one was really fun, you were wearing the DJ Misty shirt for that one cause that was the first show I think we did with DJ Misty and it was like back-to-back. Cause DJ Misty was playing at Drawing Disco but we didn’t like, interact, at that time. And I wasn’t really friends with Christine at this time either, but like the more shows that we were forced to do together the more we were able to become friends, like oh! We just keep getting set together like back to back to back. It’s like you’re the school DJ and we’re the school band, so now we’re like- and now we literally live like across from each other and I see her all the time so it's like. And obviously you and Christine have been friends since like forever, so it’s just like oh yeah we’re the music people at the school.

 

K: Laughs Exactly yeah.

 

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L: I’ve met some people, like, to date, and they’ll like, “Oh you’re that drummer!”. Like, I still meet people all the time that just know me as that drummer of that band, and I think that's kinda cool. Laughs.

 

N: I think it's spooky cause like I never pay attention to who’s in the crowd unless I know them and then people see me on campus and they'll be like, “You’re in that band…”. And I’ll be like,” What band..?”.

 

L: “What band?!” What do you mean “what band?”!? Laughs.

 

N: Cause I don't think of myself as a person in a band, I think of myself as a college student that like, plays music, from time to time. But then I forget that there are only people who know us in the context of like, “The Band At CCA”.

 

L: Yeah, we are the band at CCA.

 

N: Yeah, and I’m like, who are you talking about?

 

L: Other people wish they were us.

 

N: Well, there’s been many bands at CCA.

 

L: There are now a lot of bands at CCA but when we started out we were like the only band at CCA.

 

N: But I do think that we are the most consistent.

 

L: We are definitely the most consistent at CCA. We’ve been around for 2 years now. That’s crazy to think about.

 

N: Woah… and my singing’s only gotten worse.

 

L: Laughs.

 

N: You guys didn’t hear it but there was an incident.

 

L: Oh yeah, we had um, Nass fill in for our vocalist just now and they tried to sing Still Into You [Paramore], and their voice cracked so bad.

 

>Cut to a clip from band practice- Nass sings the chorus of Still Into You and their voice cracks something like this…

 

N: iN- wAhahaha.. hA HA! HA! ButtERflyyyy! I’M Intooo you! oh my god… 

 

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N: Things happen you gotta roll with the punches, that's another thing bands taught me, and if i mess up the chord, its like, keep strumming the guitar I’ll get there eventually.

 

L: Laughs.

 

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K: I don’t remember if there was like, people danced at B.R.A.T., but I think the Homecoming show was the first time I saw someone like lowkey try and start to mosh?

 

L: Yes! Oh my god! That was hilarious.

 

K: It was Christine and it was the guy who was like the on site photographer. He was supposed to be like working on duty doing his thingI think Christine got like super into it cause it was very like raw and punchy and like scrappy and like it was cool to see people like stop what they were doing and be like, “Woah, I gotta put down my camera and start bumpin’ a little and start running around a bit.”

 

L: Cause we played uh, Dazey and the Scouts then, we played Misery Business, cause that was one of the- if not the first show it was one of the first shows that we did without Ronnie so we had to like try to like put together a setlist without saxophone. So, it was definitely like a heavier show, we weren't doing jazz, we weren’t doing “Tequila”, we weren’t doing “Careless Whisper”. So we had to do more like shit that was just guitar and drums.

 

K: Yeah, I forgot that we were limited to those 2 instruments for that. Laughs.

 

L: So that definitely, probably, made it more rock. 

 

K: 1000%.

 

L: …and made people mosh. I’m not complaining though.

 

K: There was so like, few- there was only 3 of us so we tried to like bring a lot and fill a lot of space and that took the form of like screaming, banging on the drums, and like shredding on the guitar.

 

L: I think we definitely did Arctic Monkeys for that one, I remember doing like R U Mine for that show.

 

K: I love that song, that’s such a good one.

 

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N: I feel like we don’t suck, I feel like we’re pretty alright.

 

L: I really love when we get to play music on stage and people start like dancing or moshing.

 

N: Yes! I love it! I always try to, I always try to sow a little seed of like, “you guys can get up and dance if you want…”

 

L: Yeah I notice when you do that it’s fun.

 

N: If you want… but it’s like I want them to but I don't want to command them to like, “GET UP AND DANCE RIGHT NOW!”.

 

L: Try to gaslight them to thinking that they want it. Laughs.

 

N: You want to dance so bad. 

 

L: You want to dance sooo bad!

 

N: I can see you moving!

 

L: You wanna mosh so bad! Yeah. We were talking about, um how during Homecoming it was, like, usually people dance but like Homecoming was the first time that people started moshing during we were playing like Misery Business, and it was like Christine and the photographer guy, Laughs. That was funny. Cause that was the first set that we did without the sax I believe. Yeah so we had to bring less jazz more rock into it. So we had to, we definitely had more punk in that one. 

 

N: I like when we get kinda like messy and crazy and its just like noise and you can see the freshmen's eyes light up and they’re like, “Wait, does this band like, rock or something?”. And they get up and they’re like, “Woah this is so sick!” and they’re like, “You guys are so cool!” and we’re like, “Join. Join Band of Musicians right now. Join.” 

 

Both: Join Band of Musicians. Join. Join. Join. Join.

 

L: Join the cult. 

 

N: I literally did that at this year’s Drawing Disco. I saw there was like this guy and I was like, “I saw you dancing up there, do you like…music?” and he was like “yeah” And I was like, “you should join Band of Musicians.” and he was like, “But I don’t play an instrument!”, and I was like, “doesn’t matter!”.

 

L: Whomp whomp! You should join anyway.

 

N: Join anyway.

 

L: Come to the fundraiser. Come to this event.

 

N: Come to BoM Rock-a-Thon.

 

L: Just come support the musicians, it doesn't matter.

 

N: Exactly, exactly. Remember when we used to hold the little like Band of Musicians meetings in the like really hot room in the main building?

 

L: The painting room? Yeah.

 

N: That room was so hot. Why was there no ventilation in there?

 

L: Because it’s awful and this building is awful and it used to be a bus lot.

 

N: It’s like a crucible.

 

L: Laughs. 

 

N: It’s like- that was fun cause it was just like people coming together and playing like little songs.

 

L: Little diddility-dads. Yeah, the beginning of Band of Musicians was really fun when everybody was still involved, and now it's just like, BoM is married to CCA Radio and we do like everything together so all the CCA Radio meetings are also BoM meetings. Laughs.

 

N: I think it's awesome though I really, I like that we can collaborate with CCA Radio especially with all the pins and stuff. I think some of the best part is the merch, because then people ask about the shirt, they ask about the pins…

 

L: Oh yeah, I’m really excited for my shirt that's gonna get printed tomorrow that I designed.

 

N: It also looks awesome every single time.

 

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L: Yeah, and then B.R.A.T. number 2, the halloween one, was after that I believe, and that one was really fun, and that’s when Astra joined us for the first time! And Astra did a little stunt with us, that was our vocalist for a while.

 

K: Astra was always so supportive of the band and was always coming to the shows and like down to help Nass and everything, so it was like very full circle to be like, “Yes! Actually join us on stage!”. And she brought like so much energy she was always so natural on the mic, Astra killed it. It was really fun. I think it might’ve been one of my favorite shows to date.

 

L: Yeah that was really fun, I have that one linked, like favorited on my YouTube, that’s like the first thing that people see. I really love that show, that was really fun. I went on stage for like the first one or two songs I was wearing the Ghostface mask and I ripped it off cause I could not. I couldn’t breathe in that thing. It was so hard to play drums with that thing.

 

K: We were all in costume. That was good, that was good.

 

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L: I’m curious what your favorite show was, now that they’re listed out all in front of you.

 

N: I really liked B.R.A.T..

 

L: …Which one?! Laughs.

 

N: Oh. Oh! The one where I was dressed up as The Dare and Kaeli was, um Charli XCX.

 

L: Was that Halloween B.R.A.T.?

 

N: Yeah I think so.

 

L: B.R.A.T. number 2? That was also our favorite. 

 

N: Yeah that was so fun.

 

L: Yeah, Halloween B.R.A.T. was really fun.

 

N: That was so so sick.

 

L: I got to play the acoustic set for the first time that one.

 

N: Oh my god! Psycho Killer! 

 

L: Yes! With Astra.

 

N: That might be my favorite one.

 

L: Astra killed it on that one. Astra was our vocalist for a little bit of time, probably like a semester and a half?

 

N: Yeah. That was like a legendary one, we were doing Psycho Killer, we were doing Goo Goo Muck, we were doing Just a Girl and everyone in the crowd had so much fun.

 

L: That one was really fun. That was, I think, our most successful fundraiser too. I think we made like 700$.

 

N: Really?

 

L: Yes.

 

N: Wow!

 

L: Yeah. 

 

N: Cool.

 

L: And we had an insane lineup that year.

 

N: That was a good one.

 

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L: And then we did our first solo show after that! It was Lesbian Misery with another band at the school, that was really fun.

 

K: Again just like, passion and the desire to do it. There was like no event other than the fact that we were like, “Wait are there other musicians we could be jamming with? Like let's all reserve Timkin and make a thing out of it!” It was really cute. That was a good time.

 

L: And BoM Rock-a-Prom.

 

K: UGH! Laughs.

 

L: Prom- prom. Prom was just like high school prom.

 

K: It was! And it was perfect. All like…

 

L: That one was also a limited cast, that was you, me, and Astra, that time. We’ve done all sorts of configurations, we’ve done shows without Nass, we’ve done shows without you, we’ve done shows without vocalists…

 

K: Oh yeah! I think Nass, Nass let me borrow their guitar for that show too, and that was my first time in like, 6 months to a year even picking up an electric guitar? So that was super nervewrecking but it was so much fucking- it was a lot of fucking fun. I had such a good time. That one was also very special, because at that point it started to become like less scary and the stage just started translating into just like straight up excitement and we kind of had like a more solid idea of like who we were, what we like to do. So it all just became about like showing up and doing our best and not even- we have fun every time, but this time- the show in particular was just about like being the loudest we could be.

 

Both laugh.

 

L: Yeah, yeah I second that. I agree with that one. And then my birthday show, that one was really fun for my 21st , yeah and you did the visuals for that one, DJ Misty was there. Yeah that one was a lot of dancing especially on my half. And then we were invited to SF Pride, that one was really fun. That was our first outside of campus show that was really fun. 

 

K: That was the coolest of them. Boy was it a pain in the ass to get your drums in there oh my god. Laughs.

 

L: That was a lot of planning, that was a lot of planning.

 

K: But like, we get to say we performed at SF Pride what the fuck, thats crazy. It was a full ass stage, like the sound people were legit and in the business and like we had our own like RV backstage and like we had snacks and like chips and water…

 

L: And we met a lot of cool people.

 

K: It felt like very legit and special and it was like, what a way to like, start performing off campus, like we really set the bar high.

 

L:  And there was a lot of random people there that we’ve never met before and for the first time ever we had people cheering for us that weren’t just like our friends.

 

K: Yeah, yeah that was really special.

 

L: That was cute.

 

K: People love Danny’s saxophone.

 

L: Oh yeah, who doesn’t.

 

K: I think like we’ve got so desensitized to like, yeah electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, and saxophone is a natural combination! To see other people’s reaction of like the genres we were playing and the instruments we were choosing to use they we’re like, “Oh that’s unusual!”. But once we started playing they were like, “Oh and its cool!”. That was really fun.

 

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N: I didn’t get to do Pride unfortunately.

 

L: No, you should’ve flown back in from Florida just for Pride.

 

N: Yeah I should’ve come back.

 

L: That would’ve been fun.

 

N: Yeah. Cause then- and then you guys played the one song that I wanted to play and then I didn't get to do it.

 

L: Which one was that? 

 

N: Crimson and Clover.

 

L: Oh yeah! We did Crimson and Clover.

 

N: Er yeah, it was the Joan Jett version of Crimson and Clover and I wanted to play so bad but I had to be in stupid Florida.

 

L: It’s ok, I’m sure we’re gonna be invited to play Pride again, even though Pride was like the most stressful gig we’ve ever done.

 

N: Really?

 

L: It was so bad. I had to carry- well their planning was really bad, they were running super behind schedule, I had to carry the drumset across the Civic Center down a block, I had to take an Uber cause I don’t have a car obviously for my electric drumset. Um, yeah. It was a whole thing. And I didn’t know until the day of whether or not I had to bring the drumset, yeah it was a whole thing their drumset wasn’t great but it was still a fun gig anyway, so. And that was the first off campus show we had and we had people that weren’t our friends that were cheering for us as me and Kaeli were talking about, and it was like really joyful.

 

N: That must’ve been super cool.

 

L: Yeah we had just like random old queer people dancing to Careless Whisper.

 

N: That’s so nice

 

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L: I forgot to mention at the point of the show before this, my Birthday show, Danny or current player/keyboard player had joined us which Kaeli had also accumulated in the illustration department, and Danny is quite wonderful. He’s really sweet and skilled.

 

K: So fucking talented. So skilled dude.

 

L: Yeah he’s awesome and then we had him, and it was me, him, and our newest vocalist Mayumi at the Drawing Disco which was our most recent show which was really fun. This is our second Drawing Disco that we did and that was really spooky fun time, cause that was back in October, so.

 

K: And everyone was dressed up for that one too! Yeah, that was really cute. From the audience POV, it was really fucking fun like Mayumi was like- it’s her debut! Like, I would’ve been nervous, but she was dancing up there and like Danny was locked in sweating bullets, but like,

 

L: Yeah that was his keys debut.

 

K:  He really went above and beyond to be like yeah this isn’t a thing that I have resources for or that there’s no tutorial on how to figure this like translation, transpose, whatever out but like he was just like, “But I wanna do it, but I but I wanna do it.”

 

L: “But I wanna do it”. It was Danny‘s first time playing keys with us and then it was Miami‘s first time singing with us ever and we had like maybe a week, less than a week to pull that one together for that show.

 

K: You guys did amazing. It was so fun.

 

L: And then we’re preparing for B.R.A.T. number 4 right now. The BoM Rock-a-Thon, our next fundraiser. And that’s coming up in like… um two days.

 

K: Oh god! That’s crazy 

 

L: Yeah that’s crazy, I don’t know if I’m mentally prepared for that.

 

K: I gotta get up.

 

Both laugh.

 

K: Or more- a little more than… I dunno. But that’s like the nature of Tequila Misery because it’s like driven by fun and passion and joy and like the will to so.

 

L: And last minute.

 

K: Yeah! Exactly, it comes together last minute, but there’s like no pressure for it to be polished and organized. It can just be fun and like fun usually comes spontaneously and when we all don’t have class at the same time.

 

L: Yeah… that’s how it is. 

 

K: Most of those things have to align. 

 

L: College band moment. 

 

Both laugh.

 

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N: Something that's also really awesome about the band is that I think, um- me when I turn this into like let me just brag about the band really quick. 

 

L: That’s what it’s for! That’s what it’s about!

 

N: We never hesitate to get Halloween-y. 

 

L: Oh hell yeah.

 

N: We never hesitate to get a little spooky and to get weird. I feel like there’s a lack of- there’s a lack of weird in America. 

 

L: There is there is a giant lack of weird.

 

N: A massive massive... 

 

L: I think everybody should just get weird.

 

N: Yeah everyone should just get weird. Get weirder. Playing in the band has been like awesome, ‘cause like I’ve always wanted to like be in a band, but I never wanted to do band. Not like band in Highschool.

 

L: Not like school band ‘cause that's boring and lame.

 

N: No! Like I did musical theater in high school and I was like this is sick and I really liked performing and what not. I think there’s like something really interesting about like being on stage and like knowing that people want you to like, deliver something for them and then you get to just like do it and they like it. It also helps when you don’t suck. I think it’s been a super positive experience and I think everyone should be in a band- not everyone. I think everyone should give music a try, that’s probably what I mean to say- it’s really cathartic. 

 

L: Music is healing to the soul. 

 

N: Yeah it’s awesome. Like it’s just like, like the saddest I’ve ever been was when I couldn’t play my guitar. It’s just like awful. 

 

L: Oh yeah. You got so much FOMO at the last Drawing Disco, you initially weren’t gonna play the show tomorrow, that you decided to anyway.

 

N: Yeah, I was like no I need to I need to.

 

L: “I need to, I have so much FOMO right now I’m gonna go back on my decision.” 

 

N: It was insane FOMO, it’s like I got hit in the skull with like a baseball bat and it rang in my brain.

 

L: ‘Cause you’re just sitting like on the DIY stage like next to us while we were performing you’re just tapping your toe.

 

N: Yeah I was filming like an obnoxious mom like, “You’re doing so good Sweetie!” And I was like, I wanna play so bad. So.

 

L: It’s ok you’re back, you’re back tomorrow.

 

N: I’m gonna shred and my fingers healed…

 

L: Yeah brother.

 

N: I’m gonna be like, “Wawawawawa”.  Well not like that but like you know, close enough.

 

L: I asked you earlier what your favorite song that we ever played was.

 

N: I just don’t know. I really- I can’t put my finger on it because I feel like… okay, it would be like- I feel like it would be crazy of me to say Creep maybe, but that’s just because I love that song so much, like I love Radiohead so bad.

 

L: And that’s valid. I mean creep is a really fun song to play too. 

 

N: I like it a lot. I like the chord progression. It’s just, it’s just a really fun one. You know the crowd really loves it. But in a weird way I also really love Careless Whisper.

 

L: We haven’t played that one in a while and that was at the very first show too, and that’s why we were Careless Tequila Misery High. 

 

N: Yeah yeah yeah that’s true. That’s true. I’ll tell you my least favorite one: Why’d You Only Call Me When You're High. 

 

L: Oh yeah, we played that one like once or twice and then we never played it again.

 

N: Never again! Never again, never again. 

 

L: Yeah, that one was kind of boring honestly.

 

N: Oh, Love Will Tear Us Apart was a fun one to play. 

 

L: Oh yeah that one, I love to that one a lot. That was probably one of my favorites. 

 

N: That one was so much fun even though I couldn’t remember the lyrics, and you know what I’m wearing the Joy Division shirt right now.

 

L: Oh, you can’t even see it.

 

N: Like rest in peace Joy Division I’m so sorry.

 

L: R.I.P. Joy Division.

 

N: The way I’ve disrespected you this past year. 

 

L: I think that one was really fun. I liked playing that one a lot and I liked our rendition of it. 

 

N: My Hero was also fun. 

 

L: My hero was fun, I was just thinking about that one.

 

N: There goes my hero…

 

L: Watch him as he goes, bum bum bum. 

 

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L (Cont’d): …But all of our performances, or at least like 90% of them you can watch on YouTube on my YouTube channel, which is @goatmanlars024 or @thebandofmusiciansclub Instagram, which is The Band of Musicians Club all lowercase and our last show of the year is going to be December 10th at 7 PM in the Gensler courtyard at CCA’s campus, which is 184 Hooper St. in San Francisco and that is for my senior exhibition and I curated the concert and it’s going to be us, DJ Misty, the wonderful Christine which we have been working with obviously for awhile now, some other bands that are to be announced: I’m very excited, a lot of people that are going to be also performing at the BoM Rock-A-Thon. It was really lovely to have Kaeli here. I always enjoy a good chitchat with Kaeli. 

 

K: Thank you Lars.

 

L: Anything else you’d like to say?

 

K: Yeah, I think playing, you created the Band of Musicians, you're the founder, you’re the president and all of that and I wanna shout out that, like that club has done so much for like my mental health and I assume the health of like other people’s, it’s like- it gets very like easy to get burnt out at art school when you’re practicing and performing nonstop with your chosen medium so to have this one space that’s like an outlet that’s just for like experimentation and connecting with people, you probably wouldn’t have connected with and even just like lugging my guitar on the BART back-and-forth like I’ve gotten so many people like outside of CCA being like, “What’s that all about?” and then I’ll be like, “This is what it’s all about,” and they’ll be like, “oh my god I play saxophone or I play drums.” So even just like coming out of that I’ve been able to have like really nice conversations with people outside of CCA who are also passionate about music which like I never considered myself a musician, but I guess after 13 shows lowkey…

 

L: I think you should now!

 

K: At some point… I gotta. Yeah so I’m really grateful for the space to just like jam. It’s really important to my life and I don’t think I would’ve realized how important like jamming was to my life had it not been for you creating the club in the first place so shout out Lars.

 

L: Aw, yeah, music is life. Live, laugh, love music. 

 

K: And shoutout CCA radio for always backing us up! 

 

L: Yeah CCA Radio! 

 

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L (Cont’d): But thank you for listening to the podcast and thank you for reading my comic as I’m sure you did, obviously. 

 

N: Read it.

 

L: Come listen to us, come follow us. Right now you can find us @thebandofmusiciansclub Instagram, or at @goatmansgallery they’re both lowercase and all the one word on Instagram or as I said before the YouTube channel goatmanlars024, all our performances are on there. Yeah or you can go onto my website which is larsjobauer.wordpress.com Jo is J, O, Bauer is B, A, U, E, R. You should know how to spell Lars, it’s 4 letters. Yeah. Anything you wanna say Nass to close it out?

 

N: … Have yourself a Merry little Christmas…

 

Both laugh. 

 

N: Uh wait! It’s Thanksgiving!

 

L: Have yourself …

 

Both: …a Merry little Christmas…

… let your heart be light…

… neow new meow new neow…

 

N: Or I guess we should be saying Happy Holidays?

 

Both: … from now on our troubles will be out of sight…

 

N: OH! Watch movies in theaters! Support your local theaters. I’m a film major, I have to say it, stop streaming or I mean like you can stream but like just go out to a movie theater, buy a bucket of popcorn. I know the tickets are ridiculous but like if you catch like a Tuesday show at like 2 PM, they’re gonna have a 35% off discount and no one‘s gonna be in the theater and you should just go with your friends and family and just like experience movies in theaters because that’s where the real magic happens.

 

L: If you live in California a lot of theaters take EBT as well and you can buy tickets for like 1 to 5 dollars also like go to your local concerts buy physical media, don’t stream on Spotify or Apple Music if you can, go to your local shows, and just be a nice Neighbor.

 

N: Support local art!

 

L: Be a good Neighbor.

 

N: Don’t use A.I.!

 

L:  Don’t use A.I.

 

N: This has turned into an Anti-A.I. P.S.A. It is. It is. 

 

L: Support local artist in general. There you go, that’s just the message for the day, support local artists.

 

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L (Cont’d): Support your local music scene, especially your young musicians because we’re broke.

 

Both Laugh.

 

K: Yep!

 

L: Thank you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for reading. I love ya. 

 

K: Love you! 

 

L: Come! Come to the show and come to future shows after we graduate CCA because you know we’re gonna still be kicking it.

 

K: Oh yeah.

 

L: Oh yeah.

 

K: Play music. Everyone play music all the time. 

 

L: Oh yeah, oh yeah start your own band bitch! 

 

Both laugh.

 

L: Start your own bad bitch! 

 

K: Or join Tequila Misery!

 

L: Or join Tequila Misery! Who knows, maybe we’ll have seven members? Get you more members, we already have five. Yeah brother. Alright. See ya.

 

K: Bye!

 

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L: Thank you.

 

N: Yay!

 

L: Yay!

 

Both laugh.

 

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K: Laughs. That was adorable. 

 

>Piano outro plays.<